The Supreme Court of Pakistan is likely to take up a presidential reference next week for revisiting the founder of Pakistan People’s Party Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s murder case judgement.
On April 2, 2011, the then-president Asif Ali Zardari and the president of the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians approached the SC through a presidential reference under Article 186 of the Constitution of Pakistan to seek its opinion on revisiting Bhutto’s trial.
However, the reference has remained undecided for the past 12 years.
The committee comprising three senior judges, including Chief Justice Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa will decide on the fixation of the case and composition of the bench on Thursday. The last time the apex court took up the presidential reference case was on November 11, 2012, but the PPP’s counsel and leader, Aitzaz Ahsan could not appear as he had travelled to Karachi to attend the funeral of the late Iqbal Haider, a party stalwart and a senior advocate of the SC.
